Public Policy and Ethnicity is a response to the growing concern in many democracies that ethnicity has become institutionalized as a political category. The book draws on a number of international studies, including New Zealand, to show that this process of public policymaking creates artificial divisions and boundaries that may become permanent and detrimental as well as being fundamentally at odds with the social fluidity of modern societies. Includes a preface by Jonathan Friedman.

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List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Of Mohammed, Murals and Maori Ceremony; E.Rata & R.Openshaw
Freedom, Identity Construction and Cultural Closure: The Taniwha, the Hijab and the Weiner Schnitzel as Boundary Makers; E.Kolig
The Politics of Ethnic Boundary Making; E.Rata
Culturalism, Neoliberalism and the State: The Rise and Fall of Neotraditionalist Ideologies in the South Pacific; A.Babadzan
The Paradox of Indigenous Rights; T.van Meijl
Ethnicity in Business: The Case of New Zealand Maori; M.Devlin
Re-politicising Race: The Anglian Church in New Zealand; C.Tremewan
Putting Ethnicity into Policy: A New Zealand Case Study; R.Openshaw
Race and Ethnicity in United Kingdom Public Policy: Education and Health; L.Culley & J.Demaine
Ethnic Measurement as a Policy-Making Tool; P.Callister
Challenging Ethnic Explanations for Educational Failure; R.Nash
Dogmas of Ethnicity; J.Clark
Historical Revisionism in New Zealand: Always Winter and Never Christmas; G.Butterworth
References
Index